How to choose music?!

FI and I adore music, and the songs we want at our wedding are extraordinarily important to my enjoyment of the wedding.

I plan to walk down the aisle to “Book of Love” by The Magnetic Fields, and at some point in the proceedings we very much want to have “Cutie Boots” by Stepdad played.

There’s been lots of suggestion of strings, but I have no idea how a string duo or the like could do both songs. I live in the country and finding someone with those services would be challenging to begin with. I’m also not sure I want a DJ as I’m not planning to have dancing.

my original thought was to play the music myself through a speaker system, but I have had to change my venue and I think any music I have will be drowned out.

We used a piano version of the songs we wanted and had our dj play them. It worked out great and it was beautiful, and most of our guests who listened to that kind of music [alternative, rock] could pick out which song it was while those who didn’t just knew it was something lovely.